"Microsoft, however (those dedicated stock price masturbators), are almost certainly clueless. If anyone is going to screw it up and forcibly, tenaciously extract failure from the jaws of success, it will be them."
I think, Microsoft made the most sensible thing: by enabling Metro in desktop Win8 users of Win8 tablets can use the same application if there's no desktop equivalent, but of course there's nothing that could stop developers to produce a desktop and tablet version of their application, like MS is doing with Office.
I don't know D well enough. What I saw it was nice. I've programmed quite a bit in Prolog, and it has custom operator precedence, and I think it has it's place in creating DSL-s, but I don't see it's value for general purpose programs. Also, Prolog has Lisp style macros, and it can make things much harder to understand, when used liberally.
Also, Java is simply a good enough enough language. And in it's time it was pretty innovative (i.e. stealing for the right places and packaging it nicely). C# is awesome, but it doesn't have "killer" features, just nice to have ones (especially LINQ). Also, I'm not sure how to stronger features play out in projects with many participants. (e.g. People defining their own LINQ based DSL-s, when there's no real need or consensus about it.) Stronger features mean it's easier to shoot yourself in the foot.
The thing is they probably use different terminology. In Hungary you can become 1, programmer mathematician (literal translation) ( mostly CS, 4 semester calculus and at the end some UML and softwere engineering classes; they don't write programs in the first year altogether (at least that how it was in the old 5 year training; now we're doing Bsc/Msc as well ) 2, technical informatician (literal translation) / computer engineer (officially used English translation) ( depends on the university; in the Technical University of Budapest it's a mix of Electrical Engineering , CS and software engineering ) However at the University of Miskolc it had a 4 semester physics, numerical methods, technical drawing, and mechanical engineering related specialisations and one for web developement
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. They call it the new SICP book. I only read the first 50 pages, but it's quite intresting read. It covers parallel programming, constraint programming, and old lispy topics as well, like program transformation.
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Continents are defined by plate tectonics. So West of Ural is Europe.
Then what about the Eurovision song contest :P
And I guess you mean Shephardic Jews. Ashkenzi Jews are culturally European.
No, Asia Minor is where Turkey is.
Israel is actially in West-Asia. Geographically that place was never considered to be a part of Europe. However there are strong cultural ties.
"Microsoft, however (those dedicated stock price masturbators), are almost certainly clueless. If anyone is going to screw it up and forcibly, tenaciously extract failure from the jaws of success, it will be them."
I think, Microsoft made the most sensible thing: by enabling Metro in desktop Win8 users of Win8 tablets can use the same application if there's no desktop equivalent, but of course there's nothing that could stop developers to produce a desktop and tablet version of their application, like MS is doing with Office.
GIRL is GNU in Real Life. Originally started by hippies by pooling their girlfriends, creating more competition and better services.
I don't know D well enough. What I saw it was nice.
I've programmed quite a bit in Prolog, and it has custom operator precedence, and I think it has it's place in creating DSL-s, but I don't see it's value for general purpose programs. Also, Prolog has Lisp style macros, and it can make things much harder to understand, when used liberally.
Also, Java is simply a good enough enough language. And in it's time it was pretty innovative (i.e. stealing for the right places and packaging it nicely). C# is awesome, but it doesn't have "killer" features, just nice to have ones (especially LINQ). Also, I'm not sure how to stronger features play out in projects with many participants. (e.g. People defining their own LINQ based DSL-s, when there's no real need or consensus about it.) Stronger features mean it's easier to shoot yourself in the foot.
As if it was easier to edit video on tablets ...
If the fact that the nobody is using it isn't a problem ...
Next time you'll want custom operator precedence.
You mean Goldman Sachs hacked Sony? That's really wild.
Well, in other countries people don't eat that much cornflakes, so the US has significiant competitive advantage in shitting in cornflakes .
"Flash 1. caused pages to contain far more worthless noise makers, longer loading times, and stop focusing so much on including content etc..."
Say hello to <marquee> <blink> and
<embed SRC="annoying_crap.wav" loop="true" autostart="true" hidden="true" >
You need 3rd party libraries to clone an object.
So you want a new language because you're unhappy with the php libraries?
The software is slightly out of date ...
You mean like Ubuntu LTS?
I guess it's time for shameless plug:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/infinite-wisdom/
The thing is they probably use different terminology. In Hungary you can become
1, programmer mathematician (literal translation) ( mostly CS, 4 semester calculus and at the end some UML and softwere engineering classes; they don't write programs in the first year altogether (at least that how it was in the old 5 year training; now we're doing Bsc/Msc as well )
2, technical informatician (literal translation) / computer engineer (officially used English translation) ( depends on the university; in the Technical University of Budapest it's a mix of Electrical Engineering , CS and software engineering )
However at the University of Miskolc it had a 4 semester physics, numerical methods, technical drawing, and mechanical engineering related specialisations and one for web developement
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. They call it the new SICP book. I only read the first 50 pages, but it's quite intresting read. It covers parallel programming, constraint programming, and old lispy topics as well, like program transformation.
http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Techniques-Models-Computer-Programming/dp/0262220695
Now Linux is popular enough to have rootkits. This must be the year of Linux on the desktop.
Wow, they invented glossy screens! Not like we had these in laptops since forever.
Does IDL have any decent tool support outside of the MS world?
Also, this IDL thing is part of Corba right?
Stupid Linus forgot to install Avast.
You certainly don't want to scare away the rich idiots.
Feral children beg to differ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child